The new Advancing Human Rights-Based Policing in Moldova project is a three-year programmed action that will assist the Moldovan police to secure human rights standards and practices while safeguarding public order and security. The project will also bridge the police and Moldovan communities by facilitating community-policing initiatives aimed to translate community-policing policies into meaningful and replicable examples nurtured and implemented at the grass root level.

The overall objective of the action is to contribute to the development and advancement of human rights-based policing in Moldova.

- Insert human rights standards and practices in police daily work by creating and promoting a new training methodology and standard operating procedures.
- To achieve a deeper and systemic cooperation between civil society and police by sustaining community policing and human rights monitoring efforts.

- Two Standard Operational Procedures on medical assistance, on translation and interpretation will be developed and endorsed by MoIA and GPI.
- The action will identify police shortcomings which negatively impact human rights during the pre-trial stage of proceedings.
- It will also decrypt impediments in the implementation of police internal regulatory frameworks and developed recommendations in accordance with the European and international human rights standards and experiences.
- The skills and abilities of the police to observe human rights at the pre-trial stage when arresting suspects will be enhanced after training at least 100 police officers.
- The Practice-based Handbook for Police “Human Rights in a Nutshell” will be published and distributed to practitioners.
- Capacities of lawyers and human rights defenders to conduct monitoring and collect data and information about the apprehension and custody of suspects will be improved.
- 100 legal aid lawyers, civil society representatives and Ombudsman staff will be trained on implementation of Monitoring Tools on Police Custody Rights Observance.
- The Ombudsman and the prosecution system will receive a new source of data and information about the situation of the individuals apprehended by police, the potential abuses, and ill-treatment or torture instances.
- The victimization and public Survey will provide to the GPI/MoIA and other justice sector stakeholders the baseline data on how the citizens perceive the criminal phenomena in the country, personal safety the victimization degree and performance of police and other criminal justice institutions.
- Through grants program, Police and communities from Moldovan regions will be enabled to implement community policing partnership programs at the grassroots level.